Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
 From Amazon.com: Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a [... more]
CDN$25.00
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Pno Ctos 1/2/3
maybe not best choice: This is a pretty good recording and probably worth the money, but not the one I'd recommend. Maybe just the fault of the sound engineer, but the piano does not come through strongly enough. Instead go for Andras Schiff with Ivan [... more]
CDN$7.99
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20th Century Octopus
From Amazon.com: This is a turn-of-the-century epic of California wheat farmers struggling against the rapacity of the Pacific and Southwestern Railroad, which will stop at nothing to extend its domination. The company controls the local paper, the land, [... more]
CDN$22.50
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Carousel
Carousel - a difficult but rewarding read.: I pride myself on being a relatively fast reader, so allow me to start by saying this book is very time-consuming. The book is a difficult read, but extremely worthwhile if you can persevere. Janes writes very [... more]
CDN$9.99
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20th Century Between Past And Future
More vitamins than a semester full of the "usual texts": Notice inside the parenthesis next to the title it says (20th century classics). That's because this work belongs to that rank. I first read this book back when I was in grad school, and [... more]
CDN$22.50
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Penguin Classics Between Past And Future
More vitamins than a semester full of the "usual texts": Notice inside the parenthesis next to the title it says (20th century classics). That's because this work belongs to that rank. I first read this book back when I was in grad school, and [... more]
CDN$18.50
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Como Una Sofferte
Nono masterpiece plus two, with Pollini and Abbado: This is the original recording of one of Nono's masterpieces, with Maurizio Pollini on piano and Claudio Abbado conducting. "Como una ola de fuerza y luz" ("Like a Wave of Strength and [... more]
CDN$13.99
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The Magician
mysterious, interesting - but a bit too static characters: This is the story about a beautiful young girl named Margaret, her friend Susie and Arthur Burdon - Margareth's guardian and fiancée. They are in Paris, preparing the wedding of Arthur and [... more]
CDN$23.96
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V11 Solo Pno Music/Pno Cto/Var
A great Schoenberg collection reissued, with bonuses: Maurizio Pollini's traversal of the solo piano music of Arnold Schoenberg was always a classic of modern music recordings, and this reissue makes it all the more attractive by adding the piano [... more]
CDN$15.99
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Cello Ctos
Great century classics of du Pre at budget price: EMI Classics releases this mid-line "Great Recordings of the Century" compilation that samples cello concertos of Haydn and Boccherini. Cellist Jacqueline du Pre passed at the summit of her [... more]
CDN$10.99
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